Vera Bocalandro Carothers is a writer and educator based in Brooklyn. Currently, she is an MFA candidate in Nonfiction Writing at Columbia University’s School of the Arts. Previously, she worked as a radio producer and traveled the country with the StoryCorps Mobile Tour. Her audio work has been featured on NPR’s Morning Edition, NPR’s Latino USA,WNYC, WAMU and Slate. She holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature from Brown University, where she won the Casey Shearer Memorial Award for Excellence in Creative Nonfiction. She was also awarded the Impact Providence Grant for her work compiling a bilingual oral history of a Latino community in Rhode Island. She loves eating empanadas and riding her bike, preferably at the same time. Selected to participate in 2019 Aspen Words convening.
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Vera Bocalandro Carothers
2019 Ricardo Salinas Scholar,
Ricardo Salinas Scholarship
Vera Bocalandro Carothers is a writer and educator based in Brooklyn.